Ex-Yanki Genki Girl Haine Otomiya's tale is typical of a shoujo series. She fell in love with a young man, Shizumasa Togu, as a child, and after a certain point she decided to transfer to the prestigious school he attends and try to win his love. Much to her despair, however, he is unexpectedly cold to her and claims to not remember her.

She ends up joining the student council he heads, and becomes both his bodyguard and his fake lover, anyway. Over time he appears to warm up to her, and she befriends the other members of the student council as well. There are still many obstacles to be had to her and Shizumasa's romance, however - including the obligatory shoujo Love Dodecahedron, Shizumasa's strange and seemingly completely random changes of heart, and Haine's own family issues.

Shinshi Doumei Cross (or The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, as it's known in English) is an 11-volume manga by Arina Tanemura (of Full Moon o Sagashite fame), licensed by Viz Media and fully available in English. It's notable for being the first of her series to not include any Magical Girl elements at all.

This series provides examples of:

Always Identical Twins: The Togu family has tons and tons. The way their tradition of testing the twins keep running, they seem to have a set at least once every generation.

Arranged Marriage: Kazuhito pretty much forces Maika to marry him, in every respect. However, he's still incredibly kind to her, and it's clear that he loves her very much. And it turns out that she loves him back, after she regains her memories.

The Beard: Takanari makes sure to maintain one of these at all times, so as to avoid the female population of his school jumping his bones. He had one in Maguri, has one intitially in Haine, and Komaki briefly poses as his fiancee.

Ushio, too, ends up with Senri and is shown dating (and implied to be sleeping with) scores of boys - but the latter turns out to be a ploy for Haine's attention, who she's in love with. She even succeeds in guilting her into a (brief) relationship.

Black Comedy Rape: Sort of. Haine and Takanari almost have sex during a trip, leading to Haine awkwardly rebuking his advances. Later, a distressed Haine tells Maora that she should have just told him she didn't want to, and he would have stopped. Maora then remarks that he wouldn't have stopped (with Haine) even if she had told him to.

Clingy Jealous Girl: Haine and Maguri deliberately act this way towards Takanari, when Komaki introduces herself as his fiancee, in an attempt to break them up. Ushio and Komaki are also frequently seen jealous when Haine spends too much time with other people, but it's only romantic in Ushio's case (who takes it much farther).

Death Equals Redemption: Shizumasa tries to invoke this by refusing to ask Takanari for the bone marrow transplant that would save his life. This to let his brother become the heir to the Togu family and making reparations for abandoning Takanari during their trial, therefore causing him to become the shadow in the first place.

Defrosting Ice Queen: Ushio, towards Senri and even Maora. She completely defrosts around Haine. Takanari can also be said to be a male example (for Haine).

Inter-Class Romance: Haine is poor and Shizumasa is rich. Slightly inverted in that Haine is not poor in any real sense; she's just significantly less wealthy than Shizumasa. Still, it plays just as the trope is described.

Loves My Alter Ego: Of a sort. Haine is in love with Shizumasa, but the person she thinks is Shizumasa is actually Takanari, and he ends up falling in love with her as well but is forbidden from openly expressing this.

Mythology Gag: Two characters from Tanemura's previous work, Full Moon o Sagashite, make cameos - Mitsuki is mentioned in Chapter 15, and Jonathan appears in a panel in Chapter 29.

Oblivious to Love: Most every character is to at least one other's affections, though the two greatest are Takanari in regards to Maguri's feelings for him (who is open about them to every other character, but goes into Can Not Spit It Out mode around Takanari himself) and Maguri with Maora's (though it works out for them anyway).

Student Council President: Takanari/Shizumasa. The president is referred to as "Koutei" ("Emperor") at the school. Meanwhile, Komaki is the SCP for the middle school, with Kusame as her vice-president.

Stupid Sexy Flanders: Kasuga can even make a gay guy like Maguri blush. She is related to the Togu twins, mind you.

The Reveal: The big one comes about partway through: Shizumasa isn't Shizumasa. He's Takanari, Shizumasa's identical twin, who goes to school in his brother's place due to his brother's chronic illness.

Theme Naming: All major characters have 宮 (miya, ku/gu) in their surnames. This kanji means "royalty" or "palace" - fitting for their rich bearers.

Titled After the Song: Word of God states that the manga is named after the song "Shinshi Doumei" by Hiroko Yakushimaru, and just added a "+" for "Cross" at the end.

Also, when Haine was shot in Chapter 46 and just sort of shrugged it off.

Twin Switch: The Shizumasa that we follow for most of the first half of the manga is actually his identical twin, Takanari; the real Shizumasa is chronically ill and can't go to school, so Takanari is sent in his place. Once the brothers start appearing in the same scenes, Tanemura shades Takanari's hair darker so that the reader can tell the two apart.

Unsettling Gender Reveal: Haine - as are most readers, probably - is shocked to learn Maora's true gender. It causes her some angst the next chapter, as she worries that she might've offended Maora with her (over-)reaction to this revelation.

Unwanted Harem: Takanari has this in THE ENTIRE FEMALE (and some of the male) BODY at school, to the extent where he claims homosexuality and maintains a fake lover at all times. Haine (initially) and Maguri count as being in it, too, though he never clues in to the latter's affections.

Haine also had one - as is lampshaded after Ushio's kiss, everyone in the student council sans Maguri had some degree of feelings for Haine at one point or another in the story. Shizumasa and Kusame do and did at one point, too.

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